Music to Celebrate Life

Music To Celebrate Life

The great Oscar Wilde once remarked:

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.

This famous quote pretty much sums up what this playlist is about: living. More precisely, it celebrates the life lived, all of it - not just the good bits. Hence, the music featured here is about the joys and pains of existence. The songs selected for this playlist will have strong vocals and compelling melodic structures. However, given the nature and the theme of this playlist, special emphasis is placed on the lyrical content. If a song discusses the inner conflict of man, tells a good story, is anti-establishment, portrays esoteric snapshots of life or reflects on what every-day life is like for most of us and does this well, it most likely has a place on this list.

For those submitting music, for the purposes of this playlist, genre is not important. As long as the above-mentioned criteria is met, you are eligible for consideration. Baffle me.

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Track Sponsor Of The Month: Effigy by The Impersonators

“Effigy” describes that moment in all our lives, when we realize that we‘ve grown tired of protecting our ego, that moment when we are done worrying about how we appear to others. Rather than wanting to be cool or important, we want to be happy and discover our true identity. And the best way to achieve this is to kill our ego.

I was thinking about getting old the other day, how quickly it happens – it creeps up on you when you are not looking, old age. People live longer and stay in a much better shape longer than they did a few decades ago. Still, we all get old and our bodies give out little by little. But the angst of aging does not come from that alone; it’s also that our lives change…

I remember being fourteen in 1986 and buying the Beatles' “Magical Mystery Tour” album. I went home, poured myself a glass of Dr. Pepper and sat down on our living room couch to look at the LP cover. Then I started playing the record. The last cut on side one, “I Am The Walrus” left me breathless. ..

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I was thinking about getting old the other day, how quickly it happens – it creeps up on you when you are not looking, old age. People live longer and stay in a much better shape longer than they did a few decades ago. Still, we all get old and our bodies give out little by little. But the angst of aging does not come from that alone; it’s also that our lives change…

My New Year’s Eve began by listening to an argument at the local mall. I was doing some last minute grocery shopping with my son. While choosing between the many orange juices the store had to offer, we found ourselves standing next to an elderly couple who were going at it full steam…

Have any of you ever tasted camel milk? Well, I have, while staying in Morocco a long time ago.

Not aware of what it does to those unaccustomed to drinking it, I had a hefty dose of this beverage while shopping for a Persian rug in Casablanca. Some Swedish girls who were staying at the same hotel as I was recommended it to me, saying it gave you a bit of a buzz…

It’s a question you are supposed to answer with an affirmative. Hence it’s a question I dread hearing. In fact, I always counter that question by asking for a definition of happiness. Usually, people change the subject quickly after that. I know it’s unfair of me but nobody likes wet blankets,..